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    Actually, I suggest that the powers that be throw another 250K at them. They need to do more experiments and include the results in their report. To borrow a phrase from there report ...the one that make me glaze over without going further 'if we assume...or assuming this'......that I use 70gsm paper in my printer, we need another 11 pages to solve the shoogly table paradox/conundrum/problem/catastrophe (that's the same one as the 'spilled drinks dilemma'). Worthwhile investment if you ask me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Calluna4u View Post
    Blimey Fatshark. That's one hell of a report with some serious practical applications. You were missing out not reading it all.

    Uses include.......1. The permanent treatment of insomnia. 2.The scientifically based solution to the 'shoogly table' problem. ....
    I have a shoogly table! So, now I'll just have to read the paper. That will be bed-time reading: one page per evening, and I'll also benefit from the number one application.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Calluna4u View Post
    Actually, I suggest that the powers that be throw another 250K at them. They need to do more experiments and include the results in their report. .......
    Well, they invoke the mythical honey bee decline in the abstract so that must surely be worth a doubling of their research budget to half a million tax dollars, no?!

    'Understanding the recent decline in honey bee colonies hinges on understanding the factors that impact each of these different age castes. '

    I wonder what proportion of the scientific literature on bees (or anything for that matter) these days is garbage. The quality seems to have declined over the years as people chase funds for topics they don't really understand, maximise their publication rate and make more and more outrageous claims for novelty.

    Hurrumph!

    I could also hurrumph about the whole beekeeping examination system and its preoccupation with simplistic (or even slightly complex) theoretical models as to why bees do certain things. Most of it is naive and some of it liable to lead to wrong-headed real beekeeping advice. Anyway, good luck on your quest, GG. You have my sympathies.

    There is good science out there on the longevity of workers. I had cause to look it up recently when arguing with a highly certificated beekeeper.

    These questions do provoke thought and discussion, which is a good thing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by gavin View Post
    I wonder what proportion of the scientific literature on bees (or anything for that matter) these days is garbage. The quality seems to have declined over the years as people chase funds for topics they don't really understand, maximise their publication rate and make more and more outrageous claims for novelty.
    Where's there a moderator when you need one?



    PS You should see some of the stuff that doesn't get published or funded.

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    I am staggered by this nonsense. Who is setting this sort of stuff in SBA papers? Frankly I would expect that sort of thing on a PHD or Docterate forum discussing the more arcane aspects of beekeping. In my view and I hold an Expert ticket it is so far from reality it is totally out of place. This needs a review.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fatshark View Post
    Where's there a moderator when you need one?



    PS You should see some of the stuff that doesn't get published or funded.
    Yeah, poacher turned gamekeeper or some such phrase I guess .

    And I *have* seen quite a bit of the stuff that doesn't get funded or published! Just not (more than rarely) in the bee world.

    Pete, GG is in Ireland so this isn't an SBA exam as far as I know.

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    Yes I am Irish and it was one of I think 100 questions that appeared on past papers. We also study Pest and diseases swarm management varroa, Internal structure of the bee etc... We meet every second week on line using Zoom. I was curious as to what the reaction here would be to the question as its mostly educational and you guys always refer to good links except the last one . I will have a look see if anything else curious turns up.
    The new IBA clg are having an online lecture in April. I am sure anyone can join in if you have zoom and register as I believe it can accommodate 200 people. Its on bee vision.
    You are all very welcome to a talk on Bee vision by Dara Kilmartin.

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    Thank goodness we have more sense then.

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    Here's a cool study ... https://www.frontiersin.org/articles...018.00035/full
    Tracking All Members of a Honey Bee Colony Over Their Lifetime Using Learned Models of Correspondence
    No bee-related results yet, it's methodological. They uniquely tagged >2700 bees in a one frame observation hive and photographed them at 3 Hz over ten weeks ... that's a total of something like 67 million frames. They can identify individual bees, and the tracks they follow, with an error rate of ~2%. Considering this accuracy, the lifespan of a worker and the duration of the study, they'll be able to identify every single interaction the bees had in the hive.
    Lots of fun to be had with this type of technology and properly understanding worker policing, egg selection for queen rearing and which workers are involved etc.

    They used a Cray supercomputer to do the calculations. Further details are available here: Automatic localization and decoding of honeybee markers using deep convolutional neural networks [PDF download]

    Disappointingly, there's only one equation in the latter paper

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    A lot of the beekeepers who do well in the exams seem to be biology teachers or someone with that kind of background. It doesn't necessarily make them a good beekeeper it's just that they can answer the questions The mathsy question in the OP is really a test for mathematics skills rather than test for beekeeping skills so could be considered as somewhat obscure.

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